Balch & Bingham Welcomes Rylee Zalanka to Globally Ranked Energy Practice

Balch & Bingham is pleased to announce that Rylee Zalanka has joined the firm’s Birmingham, Alabama office, strengthening the firm’s globally ranked Energy Practice.

Rylee focuses on regulatory and compliance issues affecting utilities and other energy industry participants, including issues arising before state public service commissions, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Rylee also provides guidance to facilitate transactions within the energy industry, including transactions between utilities and vendors.

Rylee represents an array of energy clients including electric and fossil fuel utilities, as well as renewable energy companies.

Rylee received his J.D., magna cum laude, from University of Mississippi School of Law.

For more than 100 years, Balch's Energy Practice has been at the forefront of the energy sector, helping clients navigate complex challenges, market demands and emerging technologies.  We represent a wide range of entities in the energy arenas—ranging from electric utilities, energy cooperatives, independent power producers, project developers, and investment funds.

Balch's deep bench of talent includes some of the industry's leading practitioners, who regularly appear before state public utility commissions, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.